Jul 05 Watch Schweitzer Confident of Full Oil Spill Cleanup, Future Pipelines Will Be OK Three days after an ExxonMobil pipeline ruptured on the Yellowstone River, spewing 42,000 gallons of crude oil, crews are still scrambling to contain the spill but rising water levels blocked efforts to reach some of the soiled shoreline. Jeffrey Brown… Continue watching
Jul 05 'Microsleep' Software Doubles Battery Life of Connected Gadgets By Larisa Epatko and Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American Photo by Pete Prodoehl via Flickr Creative Commons No matter how fancy mobile gadgets get, they're useless when their batteries run out. With the push toward cloud computing and the always-on wireless culture gaining momentum every day, laptop, tablet and… Continue reading
Jul 04 A Fireworks Show for the Nation Fireworks will be illuminating the skies in cities across the country on this July 4 holiday. Among the classic destinations for Independence Day displays, the fireworks show on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., has… Continue reading
Jul 04 Chew On This: Muscles Used for Munching Underwent Significant Evolutionary Shift Researcher Nikolai Konow has been studying the mechanics of chewing. Photo via Brown University. Fish do it. Lizards do it. Cows do it. Get your heads out of the gutter, readers. We're talking about chewing. Three years ago,… Continue reading
Jul 04 Oil Spill Cleanup in Yellowstone River, Shinawatra Named Thai Prime Minister Teams of federal and Exxon Mobile workers in Montana are trying to contain and assess the damage from tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil that gushed from a ruptured pipe beneath the banks of the… Continue reading
Jul 01 Hamming Up the Airwaves A battery-powered, five-transmitter simulated emergency radio site at Prospect Park in Littleton, Colorado. Photo by Tom Bearden. When a giant tornado devastated Joplin, Mo., earlier this year, it destroyed more than homes, schools, and businesses. It also destroyed a… Continue reading
Jun 30 Watch Are Social Media Services the Next Tech Bubble? The estimated value of tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is soaring, but could another tech bubble be building? Ray Suarez discusses the social media services that are at the center of this question with Fortune magazine's Jessi… Continue watching
Jun 29 Mythbusters' Adam Savage on Finding the Fun and the 'Danger' in Science On Wednesday's NewsHour, science correspondent Miles O'Brien looks at a growing effort to get kids more enthused about science, engineering and math. The movement has been dubbed "Make." The event: the Bay Area Maker Faire, where scientists, engineers and… Continue reading
Jun 29 Watch Mythbuster's Savage on Finding the Fun, and the 'Danger,' in Science Encouraging kids to get their hands dirty and embrace a little danger in science. Continue watching
Jun 29 Watch Can DIY Movement Fix a Crisis in U.S. Science Education? Miles O'Brien reports from a gathering in California on a growing movement that embraces the art of making cool things and a quirky do-it-yourself spirit. Supporters see "making" as one way to overcome a crisis in American science and math… Continue watching